That's bullshit. They've got six raters total; how diverse is that? If you were to divide people based on age (above/below a certain age so there's 2 groups), gender, and whether they're a parent or not, you would need eight different people to get each perspective. Adding more dimensions and more granularity (eg more age categories, age/number of children, race, etc), you're going to need more and more people to represent those groups. For her to say that they've got diversity when there's only six freaking testers total and only three from each game is, frankly, ridiculous.
Traffic to a site is a major factor in determining its relevance on the Google results. That's exactly his point. There are enough legitimate means to get people to your site and get noticed without being a google attention whore that if you can't get the traffic through other means, you don't deserve it. If you're a good shipping company, you don't need to be linked to on digg and you definitely don't need to do link farming.
No, because pagerank has more to do with what sites link to you and the "buzz" you're getting on the internet. If you can get noticed without optimizing for google and you have a good site that gets linked to, your page will come up higher.
Apparently they've started from scratch on everyone working on this so that there's the slightest chance of this being a decent movie.
What I don't understand is why we need a story on every single person that's cast for a role. Do you think that, maybe in a week, we can just post one story on the entire cast instead?
That's what's so ironic. Especially with the doors on the cockpits now, the 9/11 terrorists wouldn't be able to do it again, even if they could still get the box cutters on the airplane.
maybe a six, three score, and six. Sorry, we're already using that number for something else. Perhaps you could mark them with a six, three score and seven?
posting a few items that of course are all dupes before Zonk or someone else catches him [and] slaps his hand... They must have been really, really bad dupes.
Resident Evil? Rayman? DDR? Are those not enough? What about the Madden, Tiger Woods and upcoming Monster Hunting? The Wii doesn't have as many 3rd party games as other companies, but they exist, and more are coming.
For the past week the top five games for the wii included Carnival Games at #1 and DDR at #3. Resident Evil's been up there, Rayman's been up there, and you have to go back six weeks to find one in which there aren't two games in their top five that are from a company other than nintendo. Developers that put out games for the wii have, so far, been reaping some nice benefits from the data that I've seen.
A large swath of the American public voted in a administration that had thrashed your economy, national prestige, and your liberty 1. The economy has been doing extremely well since Bush came in with the exception of the post-9/11 attack downturn, which was unavoidable. Any other critiques of the economy are based in theoretical problems which may or may not come about. Economics on a national scale are hard enough to predict, worldwide economics that much more so. Today, the US is doing quite well economically.
2. National prestige isn't a priority for most Americans, nor should it be. Why should anyone in America give a fuck about what Germany or France thinks about us?
3. The most blatant abuses of power by the Bush administration came out after he was re-elected. Were the election to have been held after most of the scandals that have rocked GW, he wouldn't have been re-elected.
Sorry to combat your trolling with facts, but the point of the matter is that most people smarter than you're giving them credit for. The difference isn't in intelligence, it's in priorities.
In fact the social security, welfare, medical subsidies, public education, the central bank tampering with the economy etc.. are all socialist programs/ideas You assume that he thinks those are all good things, whereas I know a lot of people who would love to do away with most if not all those things.
My next door neighbor has a household of four, which is served by four large SUVs. If households with multiple SUVs replaced one of them with a fuel efficient sedan, they'd save more energy than a poor Indian family uses. My problem with a lot of this debate is that people generally advocate that other people change their lifestyles instead of changing their own. Your post seems to suggest that we should all look at that family and judge them to be wasteful, when in fact almost nobody on slashdot knows them and we're certainly not members of the family who know why they chose those vehicles rather than different ones.
Yesterday was the announcement, today's the analysis, and it's sorely needed. To a gamer who's head hasn't been up their ass the past ten or so years, Bioware's a big deal. Pandemic has also been making a name for itself the past few years with titles like Star Wars Battlefront and Mercenaries. In the game industry, yesterday's announcement was like saying "Nuclear war between the US and Russia!" and today's is, "What got us here and how can you survive the nuclear holocaust?"
That's hilarious, but it is one of the best descriptions of the reactions we've seen from gamers: shock, disbelief, sadness, maybe some feelings of betrayal, and most of all a resolve to do what needs to be done...
It depends on who you are. If you don't give a shit if there's intelligent life other than us in the universe, then it's not too important. If you're interested in other intelligent life or in exploration for the sake of exploration, then this is what we can do now. I guess it's as important as anything else we do in space.
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That's bullshit. They've got six raters total; how diverse is that? If you were to divide people based on age (above/below a certain age so there's 2 groups), gender, and whether they're a parent or not, you would need eight different people to get each perspective. Adding more dimensions and more granularity (eg more age categories, age/number of children, race, etc), you're going to need more and more people to represent those groups. For her to say that they've got diversity when there's only six freaking testers total and only three from each game is, frankly, ridiculous.
No, because pagerank has more to do with what sites link to you and the "buzz" you're getting on the internet. If you can get noticed without optimizing for google and you have a good site that gets linked to, your page will come up higher.
Yes, because the latter sounds just as cool and fun as the former. I'm sure game sales would be exactly the same...
Games aren't supposed to reflect reality, and when they do they tend to be boring.
Apparently they've started from scratch on everyone working on this so that there's the slightest chance of this being a decent movie.
What I don't understand is why we need a story on every single person that's cast for a role. Do you think that, maybe in a week, we can just post one story on the entire cast instead?
That's what's so ironic. Especially with the doors on the cockpits now, the 9/11 terrorists wouldn't be able to do it again, even if they could still get the box cutters on the airplane.
They'd make it a web form and a law.
So, it's like them wanting us to get angry about the new Bin Laden video, so they refer to it as a "dupe slashvertisement"?
If you're real name is anything like your screen name, you're lucky if they ever let you fly again.
In Japan the Wii sells more software than the 360 (surprise!) or the PS3; however, the top software sales are dominated by handhelds and PS2 games.
Resident Evil? Rayman? DDR? Are those not enough? What about the Madden, Tiger Woods and upcoming Monster Hunting? The Wii doesn't have as many 3rd party games as other companies, but they exist, and more are coming.
I think the word you're looking for is "exponential."
For the past week the top five games for the wii included Carnival Games at #1 and DDR at #3. Resident Evil's been up there, Rayman's been up there, and you have to go back six weeks to find one in which there aren't two games in their top five that are from a company other than nintendo. Developers that put out games for the wii have, so far, been reaping some nice benefits from the data that I've seen.
Did the bubble pop before he could cash in?
2. National prestige isn't a priority for most Americans, nor should it be. Why should anyone in America give a fuck about what Germany or France thinks about us?
3. The most blatant abuses of power by the Bush administration came out after he was re-elected. Were the election to have been held after most of the scandals that have rocked GW, he wouldn't have been re-elected.
Sorry to combat your trolling with facts, but the point of the matter is that most people smarter than you're giving them credit for. The difference isn't in intelligence, it's in priorities.
Yesterday was the announcement, today's the analysis, and it's sorely needed. To a gamer who's head hasn't been up their ass the past ten or so years, Bioware's a big deal. Pandemic has also been making a name for itself the past few years with titles like Star Wars Battlefront and Mercenaries. In the game industry, yesterday's announcement was like saying "Nuclear war between the US and Russia!" and today's is, "What got us here and how can you survive the nuclear holocaust?"
Let's not forget that Will Wright practically forced EA to let him make the Sims.
That's hilarious, but it is one of the best descriptions of the reactions we've seen from gamers: shock, disbelief, sadness, maybe some feelings of betrayal, and most of all a resolve to do what needs to be done...
It depends on who you are. If you don't give a shit if there's intelligent life other than us in the universe, then it's not too important. If you're interested in other intelligent life or in exploration for the sake of exploration, then this is what we can do now. I guess it's as important as anything else we do in space.